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I got one girl doing doc review at a shitlaw firm I worked at. She worked there a year then transitioned to states attorney. My roommate worked doc review after we graduated. Hes now at a big bank making close to 6 figs with very kush lifestyle. The old guy in our class who graduated he was like 50 is still crushing the doc review circuit.

Have a friend who works at home as a member of an outsourced "on call" doc review agency and s/he seems to be financially stable and spends a lot of time writing blogs and articles for a paper. S/he's been there almost 2 years and I think it's by choice because s/he can do what s/he loves (write), make money, and still has a life. No info re exit options but anecdotally seems pretty sweet.

transferror wrote:Have a friend who works at home as a member of an outsourced "on call" doc review agency and s/he seems to be financially stable and spends a lot of time writing blogs and articles for a paper. S/he's been there almost 2 years and I think it's by choice because s/he can do what s/he loves (write), make money, and still has a life. No info re exit options but anecdotally seems pretty sweet.

Anon b/c many people know who i am. Several years in big law, would love to swap places with your friend. Any idea how i can get such a job? If you know, how many hours does she work a week? I'm basically trying to start my own business with money I've saved up but would love to supplement my income with something like this to keep a little money coming in.

An associate at my firm was formerly a contract attorney. It doesn't happen often, but sometimes a firm's practice group is so busy that it needs someone to start immediately and they'll consider basically anyone who gets referred to them and comes off as capable at an interview. I've supervised several major doc reviews and have seen a number of reviewers get hired by the government (state and federal), by law firms as staff attorneys, and by the document review vendors as project managers. I'd say that in general, most of the recent graduates from first-tier law schools that I've supervised were able to escape in two or three years.